94 MTTR^NID^. 



Scaleless. Teeth well developed. Gill-openings narrow. Pectoral 

 fins none ; dorsal and anal well developed. Two nostrils on each 

 side of the upper surface of the snout ; the posterior a narrow round 

 foramen, with or without tube, the anterior in a tube. 



Seas of the temperate and tropical regions. 



parait d'un jaune in616 de blanc, les laches 6toil6e8 sont d'un pourpre 

 tirant sur le noir ; la s6rie sup^rieure de ces taches en renferme ordi- 

 nairement vingt, et rinftrieure vingt-une. — Nouvelle Bretagne. 



y. Murajnophis haiiy, Lacip. v. pp. 629, 046, pi. 17. fig. 2. — Hab. — ? — 

 Name of a drawing. 



4.* Mtirsena fiilva, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 367, or Eur. Merid. iii. p. 190. — 

 Mediterranean. — Corpore fulvo, brunneo fasciato. 



5. marmorata, Quoy ^ Gaim. Voy. Freyc. Zool. p. 247. — Waigiou 



and Rawak. — Six inches long. 



6. Mursenophis lineata, Less. Voy. C'oq. Zool. p. 127, pi. 11. fig. 1. — Island 



of Oualan. 



7. flaveola, Less. I.e. p. 128, pi. 11. fig. 2. — Island of Oualan. 



8. Mupaena cerino-nigra, Richards. Ichth. Chin. p. 314. — Canton. — Known 



from a drawing only. 



9. Thyrsoidea blochii, Kaup, Apod, p 90 , Gymnothorax borneensis, Bleck. 



Atl. Ichth. Mur. p 102, pi. 37. fig. 2.— East Indies.— Known from a 

 single young e'xample ! 



10. MuriBna mici-opoecilus, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. viii. p. 4.j9 ; Gymno- 



thorax micropoocilus, Bleck. Ned. Tyds. Dierk. i. p. 246, oi- Atl. Ichth. 

 Mur. p. 10r>, pi. 38. fig. 1. — East-Indian archipelago. — Founded upon 

 young examples in which the specific characters are not yet developed. 

 a. Type of the species. Cocos. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



11. Muraena mauritiana, Kaup, Apod. p. 65. — Mauritius. — Short, obtuse 



head ; blackish, with some brown dots or markings ; fins with a yel- 

 lowish edge. — An = M. fiavomarginata ? 



12. Muraena nigrolineata, Kaup, Apod. p. 66. — Marquesas Islands. 



13. flavimarginata, Kaup, Apod. p. 67. — Bourbon. — Spotted witli 



yellow ; a black stripe runs from the throat to the vent. 



14. ehrysops, Kaup, Apod. p. 70. — Otaheiti. — Teeth uniserial, man- 



dibulary 12. Snout considerably obtuse. Upper parts black, with 

 yellowish-brown stars and star-Hke figures. Lips and mandible 

 yellowish l)rown, with black zigzag markings. 



15. multiocellata, Poey, Mem. Cuba, ii. p. 324; and Repert, Fis.-nat. 



Cuba, ii. p. 258.— Cuba. 



16. — .- erebus, Poey, Mem. Cub. ii. p. 426; and Repert. Fis.-nat. Cuba, ii. 



p. 258.— Cuba. 



17. Murenophis appendiculata, Guichenot in Gay, Chile, p. 341. 



18. porphyreus, GuicJienot, I.e. p. 342, lam. 11. fig. 2. 



19. Thyrsoidea kaupii, Abbott, Proc. Ac. Nat. So. Philad. 1860, p. 477.— 



Sandwich Islands. 



20. eurosta, Abbott, I. c. p. 478. — Sandwich Islands. 



21. concolor, Abbott, I. c. p. 479. — Vera Cruz. 



22. Gymnothorax scriptus, Bl. Schn. p. 529. — Corpore tereti serpent! form i, 



striis transversis et lituris figuras litterarum arabicarum imitantibu.s, 

 fustat capite parvo, rictu angusto, cauda obtusa, naribus tubulosis. 

 — Ne-w Holland. 



23. Muraena canina, Qu^y S( Gaim. Voy. Than. Zool. p. 247.— Uniform 



blackish ; cleft of the mouth wide, with large teeth ; eyes large ; vent 

 nearer to the head than to the end of the tail ; dorsal fin beginning on 

 the head. — Waigiou and Rawak. 



24. mordax, Ayrcs, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1859, p. 30.— Cerro.s 



Island. — Origin of the dorsal about at the commencement of the second 

 third of the length of the fish. Coloration dark, with linear short 

 mottlings of a lighter shade. 



